Tag: Kodi

Can I change the colours for subtitles to orange?

Can someone tell me if I can use a firestick with Kodi in Italy to see American tv? Or how to go about it? I'm going to be traveling soon. Just wondering if this will work. Or how to make it work. New to this experience and this forum, I'm a kodi kinde...

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Hi, I have an issue with DTS sound on movies. Here is the setup I have: Sony Bravia TV with Android --> HDMI with ARC connect --> Yamaha RX-V775 --> HDMI connect --> Surface Pro (first generation) Now, when I start the Surface with this co...

Hi, i have a problem with 3D video playback, the picture has jagged edges, noticeably on the Sony moving logo at the start and other scenes, 2D video plays ok and the 3D souce is ok too as i have played it on another device (Mede8er X3D). I am playing ...

hi everyone, i just install Kodi 16 with this new interface and would have some informations: - the option to go directly on the first not seen episode don't work is there something else to do? - how can i deactivate database for music? i prefer goi...

I've followed this somewhat outdated guide to setting up my synology to run a mysql server on which to host my database. I've loaded kodi up on my windows device and found the sources I have for movie files, etc, but when I set the content, point it t...

Hello everyone, I've been using Kodi/XBMC since version 12. It's always been a great go to program for medias. It got lots of improvements, many of which I like. Krypton being the best update there is, running nightly, downloaded yesterday, I've start...

First thing first, this is a very basic addon, as well as my first addon ever for kodi.

I've simply cloned the hello world example and changed the addon.py file to this:

import xbmcaddon
import xbmcgui
import subprocess
import urllib
import requests
import json

addon = xbmcaddon.Addon()
addonname = addon.getAddonInfo('name')


def check_location():
send_url = 'http://freegeoip.net/json'
r = requests.get(send_url)
j = json.loads(r.text)
city = j['city']
return "Currently connected from: " + city;

def check_ip():
public_ip = subprocess.check_output(["ifconfig `ip route get 8.8.8.8 | grep 8.8.8.8 | cut -d' ' -f5` | grep \'inet \' | awk -F'[: ]+' '{ print $4 }'"], shell=True);
result = ("Your IP is : %s " % public_ip);
return result;

xbmcgui.Dialog().ok("Check IP and Location", check_ip(), check_location())
This simple script, get the external Ip and the location and prints them in a modal when runs.

What I'd like to do, is to have this results printed on the home page (I am using titan skin if this help in any way) but I have no idea where to start, as google doesn't really help either.

I don't care if I have to create two new menu entries with that as a result, or I have I to change some skin files, but the idea is to keep the IP and the Location always visible on the home page, as I need to check instantly if my VPN drops the connection so that I can reconnect (or at least I know i'm not connected anymore)

I've also posted this on stackoverflow, and the url is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43707...-home-page but I think I might have more possibilities to get an useful response here.


Thanks in advance for any help

I'm looking at getting a new phone soon and am looking at going away from Samsung. I am wondering if I can get Kodi on an LG phone? I know technically I could get it on iPhone but I don't want to deal with jailbreaking the phone.

Hi everyone, New to the forum. Hope someone can help. I have kodi 17.1 installed on Sony android tv. I have an issue configuring xbox 360 pad. When i get to the guide button and then press the home button on pad kodi exits to android home screen so i...

I have a modal dialog open and react to some actions but other actions I want to send to "fullscreenvideo" window. xbmc.executebuiltin("Action("+str(action.getId())+",12005)") doesn't work because it expects action name not number. How can I do this?

When I update my library after adding stuff, Kodi will rescan all shares multiple times. My movie shares will be scanned once each (3 folders), but my TV shares will be scanned atleast 3 times each. Which is a problem since I have like 10 shares. It a...

Have installed the new Kodi 17 and in the main menu not appear the Add-ons bottom why. Have reinstall a couple times and happen the same all the other bottoms is there like movies tvshows Music music videos etc so anyone can help please thanks i...

I can't understand the difference between Proxy Settings "SOCKS5" and "SOCKS5 password" other than one appears to work with PIA and the other one doesn't. Can someone please explain the difference between the two settings and why one works and other do...